Are Religious People more Moral than Atheists? Here are the Facts - Phil Zuckerman

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12. While I try to be respectful of people

Certainly it is not a worldview I understand at all.

That said I try to be respectful of people with mild forms of faith. I still don’t get it.

It was when I had a severe burnout of sorts at work a decade back that I realized I was an atheist.
I found that (practically speaking) one just could not bring oneself to believe comforting nonsense (that one knows in one’s heart is pure drivel) to console oneself. Not even when so much seems out of one’s control. In fact when that stuff is essentially somehow deeply
viscerally aversive to one, it is not even comforting. I found comfort instead in a kind of bleak, sobering realism that bound me to sanity at the worst times. It can be embittering, but I choose it over more forced delusions.

There is nothing worse for one’s sanity than various culturally accepted irrationalities. I find religious faith downright depressing. It gives me a sense of nightmare as all irrational or rather incomprehensible and or primitive things do.

I am not fond of anything depressing and so I avoid religion as much as I can.